The other morning I re-read the third chapter of Ecclesiastes. I read it slowly and as I did... memories washed over me. The joy of my children's births and the agony of losing my Dad, building relationships and having to let them go, times of defeat and victories, enjoying crazy laughter and sobbing depleting tears..times when I've spoken well and times when I've had my foot in my mouth.. What an intensely profound passage! It is at once timeless and timely.

Spend some extra time s l o w l y reading and re-reading it! Let God show you how it applies to your experience. You will be blessed!

Alma Mater

Okay Lord, here goes. Seems I've been loving you, my hubby and my children for so long that friends want to know what I'm learning along the way. So, I begin this blog.

This week in our English studies we learned that the Latin root word for Mother is Mater. And that Alma means nourishing or kind. So...Alma Mater means "nourishing mother" Thinking of how this term is applies to the school from which one graduates...made me shudder. I'm so blessed that my children are not in a public institution feeding from the god of this world's philosophies, falsehoods, myths, and lies. Imagine trying to nourish a child by teaching them that rather than being created on purpose for a purpose, they are simply an accident (a freak one at that when you consider the notion of a big bang beginning).That's not kind and it's certainly not true! Read Romans chapter 1 beginning with verse 16. "I am not ashamed of the Gospel". If we are not to be ashamed it follows that we are certainly not to BAN truth from our children's education!!! Anyway, studying roots words is fun! And you never know what thoughts it will lead to.

Thank you Lord, for the freedom and awesome privilege of teaching these, your children. Please impart your wisdom to me. Enable me to be the nourishing mother you created me to be. Help me to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of you.